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Reference

TUTE C.O. 133

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Remarks

87

In Table N1, we discover that the list

of

sich is smaller in March than in any other month throughout the year, while on the other hand it is

is quatio in November, although it must be recollected that it is not actually the most unhealthy month. The reason. then assigned for the increased sichness in November, is, that it is owing to the number of Indians who usually suffer, most from the setting in of the low range of temperature at that, time. It will be observed that there have been no deaths during January and February, with the exception of one woman who died in childbirth. The months of July and October show the greatest mortality; still,

I

we

not to consider the months, in which the greatest mortality appears, to be the most unhealthy, as the cases that prove fatal, have generally been taken ill in the previous months and, this s statement is besides corroborated by what is observed in Britain where nearly 100 more die of "Prithisis in spring and summer than in autumne

and winter, and yet these are

certainly not the most unhealthy periods. The most unhealthy months in this Island or rather the months in which the most fatal diseases have their origin

July August and September, the three

are

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hottest months.